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Logansport Weekly Journal (Newspaper) - February 12, 1870, Logansport, Indiana Published every saturday z w c Hunt proprietors journal building Broadway Over p 0 rates of subscription a fear in Advance Aro the Only terms desirable on the part of the publishers any other Terras must be by special arrangement but under no circumstances will the pub Lishers charge Leas than f payment is delayed three months a demoted to Fox bios local Ajshe vol looa3st8port list Piast a saturday february 12 187o isto business directory attorneys w h Smith attorney at Law office of fourth Street opposite courthouse formerly occupied m d d Dycman Lytt Logan sport id p a Berry 1 t 1 and rotary pm tic office no q7 of Tireli St Lyst id d d fratt son attorneys at Law opposite court House Logan Frokt ind Colas d Pratt rotary Public 11 e b Steele attorney at Law Atid notary Public office no 27 fourth St near inroad Wajs Logansport Indiana special attention Iven to All kinds of col Lection and a prompt remittance notarial anti probate business done and accuracy 3 b military claim agent office 21 fourth Street nth Logan Frokt id at Law i p Jeskis a my Kloet Jenkins Flory attorneys at Law practice in tic Federal Ami state courts Okpick opposite cons those 6in23 Logansport id t j Mac Mixis attorney at Law aed notary Public will practice in Cass Anil adjoining counties special attention Given to probate business office opposite court Oise Logansport de Witt c Justice attorney at Law and notary Public Logansport id office with l Chamberlin Idu t s Rollins and notary Public Logansport office of fourth Street opposite the court 14tr John a Chappelow adorn by counsellor Law Loga Spost id office in pharos building in Rev nne office upstairs Entrance on fourth Street Bess James m Pratt swig Art Pratt attorneys at Law Public prompt attention Erlven to All business entrusted to their care special attention Iven All kind of collection Ulm prompt re Nii Timco notarial business done with Les accuracy office so 21 fourth Street up5tairs opposite court in c Mccregor attorney and counsellor at Law office Boom no 6 pharos Cui Busg b special attention Given to pro Bate and notarial business 4tf f s Crockett attorney at Law and pub Ltd will practice in the higher courts Aud before justices of the peace in the City and country office in Early opposite court House by Logansport id 13 Jas in Ilow fake Atto Knet at Law real estate agent office Cor North and fourth its Ivl Logas sport is 3 t co sell m to infield Mccox Ell Winfield attorneys at Law office no 21 fourth Street opposite court House Lotf Zoga sport w p Lasselle ton Nerly of co k 9th incl vols attorney for the collection of any and All kids of claims against the United states Money pensions commutation of rations of nusted 3tlen while prisoners of War prize Money loss of horses and All property lost in the military service Topp Togo of pay removed applications for patents attended to 20 Louisiana Avenue judiciary Square Washington City sept dentists or d l overholser id in Iet t i s t office 101 Market St end of Pearl Logansport Indiana the various operations pertaining to the preservation of toe natural und the artificial Teeth Perton cd in the most careful and thorough Teeth extracted without pain by the use of oxide Gas charges moderate 24tf my id e 2st t i s t office on Broadway opposite the Post office Teeth extracted without pain Crowell successors to in 0 m ecom3 up 9taie9 Ifo 85 Cor Pearl and Broadway St Logansport ind druggists ceo w Brown wholesale ask retail a5d a Pothecary no 76 Market St ind Titi store wholesale and retail d r physician surgeon t4 Matt let St part judge Hall uni Dinu Ocsid Cnoc at e x Tallinn Market Street in Euvern the canal Anil sixt i it go special attention Given to Wynen and children j in physician surgeon office of fou Rii St Tiro doors North of Borgess drug store Loga Slort id May 30 3scs lj10 ceo Pyburn i d office 76 Broadway Loga Usi Over 7 Interbay Igors store residence High St near thirteenth Miry be consulted on nil acute Ami chronic diseases which to trials Success Emliy accor Ding to Hie Calls in town or country promptly attended to at All hours of the or night us s f Indiana be turns thanks for former in troupe und influence and a continuance of the if uie Ristl k Cornce of Jick Rion and doer Creek streets North of the dwelling first oort on East aide of Deer Creek to vet is no charge Tor at the flick charges Iov Survick april 0 is fir St miscellaneous j w Henderson son manufacturers and wholesale and Ilc Tail dealers in All kinds of f u Trivit ukr 3e Cuti Siye two ire fifth bet Market canal its 13tf St with Pierce Witol Salk and Kkt ail Deai Kiis in foreign Groc cric provisions oysters Kew thick iiu1jldixg no 89 a Bhaji canal 44 Logan spoilt in Diana by the resolve Tell Ine not of a Fitce that fair lip nor Cheek that red Tor of the tresses of her hair curls in order Laid Xor of n rare Seraphic voice that like an angt1 slugs though if f to my Choice i would have a these things but if the ii Wilt have me love and Iti Mial be n Slu the Only Celii move is that Sho will love me the glories of your Ladier be but metaphors of things and but resemble what we Sec Ench Cummon object brings roses outed Timir lips and lilies to Weir whiteness stain what fool is he that shadows seeks and my the substance then if to Lour have me love a Hiss let it be one Theta Kiuru else in a servant to the Glass that the Canary lined the professional baby by a Olsta caused by sighed and said Shes an or Phan As poor As gods Birds that hop on the Bough its no to youll be of thither tellin but mind and see no liar rum comes to the Dar lint or ill Wallop be share it was always stipulated that a part of the profit should belong to twinkle and the Hoard of dirty pennies so gathered at the Bot Tom of marys cracked China vase were As sacred in her fight As if they had been blessed by the Pope so twinkle was carried out Day after Day to Knock with her tiny unconscious hand at the heart of the great hard world it was the morning that Tom a Longs Hiu Laid her first egg i should like to Tell you All about this remarkable fowl if i Only had time How Many Story germs lie wrapped up in every Little Story Bud this event was of the great est possible importance to the a Longs great and Small for since the Hen first entered the family various anticipated blessings had been referred to it said Tom trying to use a Manly native american word if Mary Malony had Hung out a sign from the fourth Story window of the tenement House in Cork Al Ley where she lived saying baby wont we smell custard when the to let or lend the fact that she j Hin begins to Lay Bedad 1 cried Knolic Malony turning round with her knife stick Ingin a half peeled potato that would be a wicked extravagance Well sell the eggs and buy Moth Uigum Cui i Yevu Iupe a i Marrable Genius for being turn off lying in clothes baskets Aifa m Harwood Iti Erchant tailor no 107 Broadway above the canal Indiana where will at All times be found a Good assortment of cloths cas3imerc3j vesting a which he la pre pared to make up in the most approved styles at Short notice and on reasonable terms january 7th 1865 42tf Hugh Masc Cuba Forb iukki1 and Falee in boots and shoes no 66 Broadway Logan Vioet 1n watches jewelry c h Church jeweler and engraver Railroad to xes keeper denier in Xiv ato3aes of cd cry description Rich jewelry solid Silver and Silver plated Ware Tea sets spectacles clocks in Broadway above canal logax3poijt Indiana watches clocks and jewelry carefully re Ili ired and warranted 3ltf just received 3d3l bits had such a convenient piece of property on band could not Havo been Bellcar understood throughout the neighbourhood Tymn it already was the baby god bless its dear Bright eyes was not one of Mary Malonis own Brood Xone of her Frozy freckled Young tattered marions would have answered the purpose for which babies arc made professional this particular mite of humanity was the no plus Ultra of Good Chil Dren it Early developed a re Ned and reposing contentedly upon Dresser shelves altogether it was a win some dimpled Happy creature that every body loved i do believe this baby would have nourished All the same hanging on a Peg it made such unseemly Sporl considering its size of the trials and troubles of this great by world its Mother had been a charwoman in a vast downtown building All j honeycombed with offices once i she slipped and fell on the main stairway with a bucket of boiling suds and Between the scalds and bruises and some internal Hurt that Day received she never did a stroke of work if fur Ward when she died Mary Malony took her baby because them two1 and the Mother that was gone rest her scrub bed together a Deal in their time and being the oldest and bist friends of each others had Zuur Rel Luck nil fit u tic us too god for give her we knew How Quick acc lid Sho was Jim sides this it was pure Charity Tho purest article of that kind hides in just such Dingy ill smelling rooms As Mary Malonis the baby father proved Excel Lent food for powder and Ball to was shot in the of those dumb nameless ones that make so Many pathetic Little hummocks on Southern battlefields As for Den Nis Malony marys male encumbrance he was substantially what Mary called him a poor guzzled his soul away in dram seeking to interfere with the divinity that Drudge and toiled scolded and stormed up in that fourth Story room and yet at or a Breastpin like miss Man Shire Hooray 1 Hooray for mothers All the Small Tom trying to Pluck up Spiri you shall Dave an egg when the it 1ft old Hen lays three a Day he kicked Sandy slyly on the Shin Sandy was Busy releasing a Flap from one of the numerous air holes that ventilated Toms Tro triers i dont a none of your eggs Tom Malony and a Little lire danced out of the crows Dull eyes but mama and her tone changed to one of almost tearful supplication if t could take out twinkle Lilay Shant a mite o harm come to her deed there Shant Mary had Aliv nys heretofore re fused this girls applications for twinkle because she knew no Good of her but the influence of old speckles Happy Effort was like a hot Sun on a Snowbank and she yielded to the crows request partly i am sure because she knew the poor creatures Mother was from whisky drinking be it badly whispered but nevertheless sick the cupboard was empty and last months Cunt overdue now we behold twinkle wrap Ped in what Mary called the flirt of an old securely wrapped by her Loving hands and after receiving two smothering Kis ses All round from the Little Malo Rys carried out in tie crows Bony anus it scorned As though they were hardly Strong enough to support the baby contented weight but they clasped the Little creature in a hungry Way As if she was the Burden for which they had Musselli Llos column i the logs sport insane infamy to be ventilated Breastpin shouted All the Fry at the top of their Good Strong Long been Calmi lungs there was one promising there was no need of the crows thing about those ragged Young a trying to look worse than common were always ready to when Sho Iway for Mother the counting of the eggs before they were Laid went on vigorously various nests in old baskets and boxes were arranged to make Lay ing both easy and pleasant the happiest results were anticipated but it would seem that Tommy had squeezed All Tho laying Genius out of this unfortunate Chicken As for twinkle bless her dear inno cent she Only drooled energetically and Laud Rcd As loud As she could when the Hen was in exhibition and that happened to be about All the time As she was a very accomplished Bird and could do anything but Lay speckles grand on leg act round a Chalk Circle gently urged to what Tom my called coming tip to the scratch by a thread tied to her foot the promiscuous rabble of Cork Alley voted almost As exciting As dad much ruins performing Monkey a Good appetite is considered a great Blessing did you Over think that it is Only a Blessing to Lucky people like you Ami me who Ilont went put begging on the other hand with a curious touch of instinct she always attempted to fix up a Little this time she had strapped Back her Lank hair with a piece of list and pinned a mans Caston paper col Lar around her scrawny there were five Hooks gone from the Back of her Tea coloured dress und three other were straining to get Loose and give Freer vent to i the bulge of White perhaps but now of no particular her legs were Bare half Way Down from her Kupcs and her big splay feet in miserable shoes that served no other purpose than to relieve her Bony Shanks seemed to ally her with the waders quid we footed species i twinkles Little starry Fuce shone Oubol her old wrap As peaceful As the Blue March sky overhead it i was preposterous to try and make her look miserable she left that sort of thing to luxurious infants who Are oppressed with their end Bro dered dresses and Satin Licud cradles she never appeared to think of we Melivn Jin Cost Isuke state of Indiana Cass county personally appeared before me the undersigned clerk of the Cir Cuit court within and for said county and state James w Fitz Are Ald Mark Hart and George deem necessary Aud executing the warrant you shall make due re turn thereof to this office witness my hand Aud Seal of the Cass circuit court this 10th Day of february a d 1sc9 Horace m Bliss clerk i do hereby certify that i executed this writ by arresting the i within named John t Musselman the within described witness my hand Anc the Seal of 111 a the Cass circuit court at to Flint i s it sport on this 7th Day of May a d 1807 Horace m Bliss clerk the state of Indiana Case county is i Horace m Bliss clerk of the circuit court within and for said superintendent state of Indiana Cass county Soj i Horace m Bliss clerk of the circuit court in and for said county and state do hereby in uie above entitled cause As the same appear of record and on file in my office Aud i further certify that i am acquainted with the handwriting of d d Dykeman and that i believe the charge of in sanity the dismissal physicians certificate and the finding of the handwriting copy of the Bond of Lames to Fitzgerald a Justice of the peace within and for said Cass county As appears of record in witness whereof i have Here unto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said court at Logansport this 9th Day of a gust a in 1809 to Macb m Buss clerk and Horace p Biddle being Caliodis examined and testifies Der oath and David d Dykeman also Tes lilies under oath adjourned monday february St court met pursuant to adjourn ment j w Mega Righey testifies under oath John Brown testifies g n Fitch testifies j m Justice testifies t ii Bringhurst sworn testifies h h Barnheiser sworn testifies j ii Howard sworn testifies Ilc remained in his native town John Gilbirds sworn testifies he reached his Twenty second John Davis sworn testifies Yum when he removed to Libert j tuesday morning february 9th Union co Indiana and eur tried met pursuant to and wll flt is known As the Quaker Semi Mary to acquire the rudiments of an education justices to be in the of said Dykeman witness my hand and the Seal of said court tins 23d Day of no vember 1sgo is Horace i Bliss clerk to be continued Huss Litan of t1ie week rates of advertising one Square the spae of ten line of thu Type one week and 50 cents for each additional insertion for three weeks 6mosil Vear 1 50 54 00 00 Ocusio 00 2 so urls 4 Ooi 6 00 s 00 11 oo1 15 co 3 spurs j 50 s 00 10 00 15 00 20 00 4 spurs 6 50 10 00 12 00 is 00 25 5 inches 7 50 12 00 14 00 21 00 so 00 Vicol s 00 14 00 16 00 24 Ooi 35 00 20 00 25 00 40 00 60 00 1 Cois 00 30 00 45 00 60 00100 05 is per Square for each to the party pub Lishing them local notices 15 cents per line 27o no Tice however Short inserted for less than is the coloured senator from Mississippi Hiram k revels the newly elected coloured senator was born in Fayette Cumberland county North Carolina in the year 1822 of free parents and is 47yrs of age where from the next meal is coining the Lingo overgrown appetites of those Little so much out of proportion to the size of their bodies almost worried marys life out and a Mac her Days and nights one round of Dull drug ing toil speckle the Hen aimed this peculiarity with the others Anil ate her head off regularly at least three times a Day Plum Hose Brilliant Hopes of a Fortune based on that obstinate fowls eggs began to fade a Little from the minds of the less sanguine Mary with a dark look would glance from the unconscious speckle on her favorite Perch tommys shoulder to a Little Black heart was As Mellow and Sweet Fla j pot that stood in the Corner and assortment old cos voted As an october there wis tie baby Sophy by name the Dusty old Cobbler lib hammered All Day in the basement looking As if every part of him Hill been Cut out Ottlie same Rusty piece of not excepted her Little Allbri Glit and i Tolhur spoon tie rag picker named her Happy Lucky and or Sprat the sentimental Young Man in the pharmaceutical and chemical Hall otherwise a two shelf apothecary shop called her twinkle because he said her eyes danced just like stars and in some Way or sprays poetical name came into a this is the place get a Good clock a Small sum of Money no 58 Market St sign of the big Logansport oct 2318c9 31 Wool Wool Wool Wool i will pay the highest Price in Cash for washed unwashed and tub washed Wool Wool growers will and to their advantage Call on me before Selling Cash advances Blade on consignments we Rosenthal 53 and 58 fourth Street Logansport june 9 1866 planing bending it m Ussi pkg bit Skoboe Bevan messik6eb beam proprietors of the Vor and quite put out All others it would take too much time to Tell just How twinkle became a professional baby Mary Malony standing Over the Washtub a sort of hibernian Venus in a Cloud of soapy steam Oti ii tried to excuse away the very Best action of her life lint folks might say she was unjust to her own flesh and blood when she took another Mouth to fill truth to Tell there was Al ways an unoccupied aching Corner in Eracli one of those Little Malony stomachs but Tricy never begrudge anything shared with twinkle Mary always ended her Harangue i 10 by a fond glance toward the Little fair sunny creature looking like a 1 Dove strayed Oil accidentally into a flock of Long legged goslings she must scratch Tor herself As soon As Iver she can would come next with a half suppressed sigh and then Rubadu dub Back to the washboard the tender age at which the Young Fry of Cork Alley began to scratch for themselves was marvelous 1olly French misnamed because she was really English observed once that twinkle would be a treas ure to the profession Polly was a Little in that line herself she ought to know they wanted infants that could Slop the Public and folks might As Well try to get past that baby face As past a Bunch of violets that was the beginning of it the profession at which Polly hint have to bother their Heads about she a pushing about in a Childs weak arms through the bustling streets she Coli Lutcz mainly on he Jolly Good noises that every thing made the horse ears the soap fat Manthe rag gatherers Carl fish horns and All seemed to be looting piping and jingling for her Especial Benet it the poor Little Crow Kjad never been so Happy before in her life there was a great Deal of evil in the girl i dare say hut it had been coaxed and netted while every Good trait that attempted to Peep out to the Light got instantly knocked on the head the heart that devotedly loves a Little child cannot be wholly bad Aud the crows Jove Tor twinkle amounted Illust to adoration she had a Sweet maternal instinct in Shoih Opuni that made her Long for a baby to pet and fondle nobody would Ever Trust their baby to her care be cause aha was so ill favored and had a hard name that is the worlds Way you know when peo ple Are supposed to be bad they get fenced off from the Good and leu to grow Worsa and worse but i do not believe that is the Way our heavenly father deals with his misguided Little ones the Crow or Lindy her True name was the Only lean Bird be longing to her miserable mothers blood there was no Little brother or sister to mind How of thu her hungry heart longed for one tattle twinkle became a kind of Lodestone to the poor nights when she would lie Down on her Bunch of tout Straw sup Perless and perhaps from the blows her Tipsy Mother had imaginary twin Kle would seem to come and creep then Back to speckle As much us to say great Gormand izing hens that Lay and wont Lay must at last come to the pot Tommy understood Thi look and his peace of mind was gone he made the most touching appeals to his hens moral sensibilities by quoting the Noble example of old Grimess Chicken and Ivory Day Slio Inid two cd go and Sun Duya she Laid three but it failed to move speckles Stony crop in desperation he thought of offering her to Ijar Ntim As a highly trained fowl of in Menso Genius although Down deep in his Brave heart he still believed in her and held a Little Glimmer ing Hope that in Spito of All speckle would some Day make his Fortune nights he would often Wake up out of some dream of a Little Irish boys Paradise and nudging his brother Sandy whisper Sandy didst be hear the old Hin a Capulin but Sandy never heard the ghost of a cackle or anybody else the great deed was done in secrecy and silence when least expected speckle chose a very queer place to Lay her egg Slid dropped it on into her miserable bosom and her Skinny arms would clasp the pre Cious thought for Golling that they closed on emptiness alone god sends real or fancied Comfort to the most wretched of his children after spending two years at this place he went to Ohio and completed a full theological course at College when he entered the ministry of the african meth Odist episcopal Church during Liis several years of Resi Dence in Ohio or revels exercised All the rights of a free Man and was allowed to cast his ballot at election without opposition at the breaking out of Tho War he removed temporally to Balti More Maryland Wither he had been called to take charge of a col ored High school for adult coloured Wliilam employed in this capacity or revels also assisted in the of several col ored regiments and at the expiration or one year he accepted a com Mission As Champlain and came to Vicksburg and other Points on the Mississippi River to look generally after the wants of his people at the close of the War or re vels located at mulch pm and Jimee than hits been presiding elder of Tho african m e Church for the Southern District of the state to was appointed a member of the cily Council of Natchez by Gen arabs and was elected to Tho slate Senate by a Large majority Over his competitor the Persona appear once of or i revels is decidedly repossessing he is five feet in inches in bight i weighs Iso ibs and is about three fourths White his features Are i regular but prominent and with his Broat expansive brow Cates Large intelligence in Mani nor he is easy and affable and takes the Honor conferred upon him As humbly and thankfully As Gen Grant did the Arm v6s Pilot of a refuse barrel full of worth1 wild the Sweln l10 Scep of Early life behaving tint a pair planing and bending o Alfo manufacturers of and dealers id All kinds of building lumber holdings brackets near Tho Valley depot carpenters and by Ildra will do Well to Call on us before purchasing elsewhere As our facilities for dressing lumber Are not sur passed by any establishment in the state All work done prom titty in Tho Best manner and at the lowest prices Limo dyeing no Fot Irth Street Logansport 14 cleaning and dyeing removal a has removed and Arket Sis old Stond Corner of Pearl rices Doo above cleaning and dyeing a Cummings the reliable renovator and Dyer is up and dressed for business Jascon omy is wealth and he has saved thousands upon thousands to the Good people of logans port in meaning men diff and otherwise reforming their old Clotees he is still at it and people who believe thata Dollar saved is a Dollar made should Call in and have their a Loume overhauled and repaired Sitf traps that crows Mother belonged to the the Crow herself de a pertained to what she naively termed Tho washers there they go asking All Day Long through the streets and lanes but not Al ways As the scripture promises receiving there go Asker on one leg and Asker on to legs hopping like toads along the ground be Kors exhibiting every kind of repulsive deformity and pitiable mis Fortu that to and Thieve and others with Pale pinched laces who Are dying for Succour because their profession is in such evil odor Cork Alley was not nearly As pro found it and run with it while it was yet warm up to Tommy o Mother cried the boy half beside himself As he hopped round like a parched pea with one foot in it very Holey stocking Aud the other Bare and one ragged jacket sleeve Oil and the other on the old bid iras done it at last salary Malony stopped spanking Little Pat and Little Pat he stopped crying and began to shout and All the others twinkle not excepted hooted at such a rate Yon would have thought nothing less than a Shower of fairy Gold had fallen Down the Chimney now i am going to loll Yon How that very first est that speckle River Laid did bring great Good Luck to the Mitlo nys Many Tine grand of baby hands were cuddling in her neck and a baby Sweet breath was warming her Check Natl we Chi fortunes have turned on a Pivot no larger than the Little end of a hens Csc quite close to the door with a mooching apologetic air As if All the stiffening had been cuffed out of her stood the Crow i sup got luxury luxury begot riot and pose the boys had Given her that disease riot and disease Between name because she was such a thin j them begot poverty and poverty Slinky creature her hair was too begot necessity this is Imp to snarl and her old Tea col a revolution of mini Aud is about Josh Billings As 1 there seems to be four styles of minds 1st them who know it so 2nd hem who know it ant so 3d them win split the difference and guess at it them who dont care which Way it 13 there is but few men who Hez character can Leto Lead a life of Idle Ness True love is spelt just the same in Choctaw As it is in English those who retire from Tho world on account of its sins and Peski ncs3 must not forget that they have yet to keep company with a person who wants just much watch icing As anybody else necessity begot invention invention begot convenience convenience begot pleasure pleasure be Ord dress Clung to her legs like the Tail of a whipped Dot Shure was you of thither find in it Lindy Mary asked As pleased As could be while she patted the Pearly Shell holding it affection their children out Dies cd i rags to beg through the god knows they were poor enough but nothing can excuse the wicked deception honest Mary Malo Nawlo would scorn to beg As Long As she could earn sixpence with her ten finders refused the loan of twinkle to All her neighbors but those in a want of food and fire so when n Shock headed smear faced her head ill to m could j be ankle today Mary looked surprised Aud soft ened the Crow had a bad name for thriving and she wondered at this sign of honesty i am glad to say right Here that the Crow had afar worse name than she deserved i am also glad to say that Tom coloured under his and looked As if he wanted to hide be Hind a cabbage Leaf for he remembered More than one occasion on which he bad mocked and jeered at the Crow along with the rest of the rabble of Cork Alley Hooray for the Crow cried All he can brag on most people decline to learn Only by their own experience and i guess they Are More Tymn halt right for i do not Spose a Man can got a perfect idea of molasses by letting another fellow taste it for individual to be a Fine Gen has either got to be born be brought up so from in he cant learn it sudden any an he can learn to Talic in Jun correctly by practise on a Tomahawk i Puder if there was Ever an old maid who Ever heard of a match that she thought was suitable if a Man wants to got Bis Dimen Sions let him visit graveyard miss Emma Hardy of Wilton m Oine stands six feet and eight in Ches in her stockings and weighs 376 pounds she was the tallest and biggest specimen of humanity that recently assembled at Afat mans Ball in Lewistown Maine Journo Cut j k Vernon sworn and interpreted French books Jno Gallagher w t s Manly goo Immel Jno me Seppey Jas Guthrie win to Southal sworn adjourned wednesday morning february 10th met pursuant to adjournment Ashbel Tuttle sworn claims four Days s b Richardson witness claims two Days the said Musselman now offers in evidence the Bible Aud sundry books on masonry Odd fellow ship Ami which being by the court ruled out said mus Selman excepts and refuses to fur ther argue this matter and Tho court being sufficiently advised in the premises do say find and adjudge As follows to wit we Samuel m Goodwin and James Fitzgerald justices of the peace in and for said Cass county hereby certify that we have visited John t Musselman of said county a person alleged to be insane Aud Havn Mccu for the last three Days engaged in holding an inquest in regard to him according to Law in which we have Given great latitude to the proof for and against the charge preferred and we Are Satis fied that he is insane and a proper person and patient to be sent to the Flop ital for the insane for treat ment that his disease is of about three months duration that from this time Forward his being at Large would be injurious to himself and dangerous to the Community that he is a resident of eel township in said county and has a Legal settled ment within the state of Indiana j the following is the physicians j certificate filed on the 10th Day of j february the state of Indiana cil39 Gount is til the of the ii Musiy of John t Mii Saelman i Graham n Fitch a practising physician residing at Logansport Cass county Indiana being called upon by James Fitzgerald and Sam Uel m Goodwin the two justices of the peace who held the inquest of insanity and who have i turned a finding of such insanity and be ing a witness myself on such trial do now make the following certificate of the facts developed in this Case 1st i find the patient John t Musse Maii is free from any infectious disease or vermin 2d the ago of Jphn t Mussel Man is about fifty six years the first link in the Chain of mental de Rii gement i observed was some four years since More or less and was hypochondria accompanied by and doubtless caused by dyspepsia 3d Tho first symptoms of Deci ded insanity was noticed by me about a Mouth or six weeks since 1th the supposed exciting causes of the disease was indigestion and hypochondria ism coupled with a naturally nervous irritable temperament with a mind which runs to excess on every subject to which it is directed uth from Tho Best Light t can gain on the subject i do not think his disease is hereditary Gelli he has not been subject to epilepsy 7th up to this time the patient has not made any direct attempt to commit violence on hims it or oth ers but in his paroxysms of Rnic he looses All self control and some care and Camion is due during such periods about four years ago i apprehended from his language and conduct suicide but not since that time St he is married Man having a wife and two children 9th he is not a professor of re Ligion 10th until recently he has been a merchant and banker for the last year Hohnsbeen engaged in no occupation aside from managing Aud renting his property Lith no medical treatment recently formerly it was directed to improvement of his digestion and lessening an occasional bronchial cough medical treatment was hover Active i directed exercise and change of scene Graham n Fitch m d Logan Lorit ind feb 10 1869 the following is the warrant is sued by the clerk and returns of sheriff endorsed thereon with receipt of superintendent the state of Indiana Cass county 53 to John Doii sheriff of ass county greeting whereas the proceedings Neces sary to entitle John t Musselman to be admitted into the Indiana Hospital for the insane As a patient have been had according to Law you Are hereby commanded Forth with to arrest said person and con vey him to said hospita1 Aud you Are hereby authorized Totake to your Aid any assistance you May tie Kest file could do As a general Rule newspapers like individuals reluctantly acknowledge that they have been wrong they Are tenacious in the belief that in the constitutional aphorism the King can do no wrong there is an error of the press and that for King we should rend editor there is an anecdote of an editor in one of the most important provincial towns in England he was seated at his desk Reading the letters received by that mornings Post Wien an unannounced visitor presented himself i believe sir thai you conduct the journal the reply wus a nod of assent i am or Moore a banker ing a and you have had the audacity to state in your last Issue that i had commit Ted suicide in a fit of temporary insanity the editor was puzzled but a dismayed we had the paragraph from our local reporter in your town and have always found him reliable and accurate the banker became More angry Avell sir you Sec that i am alive of course you will publish s contradiction and apology in your next number i am afraid my dear sir that this would violate our in variable is never to admit that we have made a mis statement but sir As Yon App eau greatly annoyed by the paragraph 1 am willing to state in Tomor rows paper that the rope broke and that you Are fortunately alive More than this cannot be our principle is never to retract school discipline the discipline at christs Hospi Tal in my time was Ultra spartan null Domestic ties were to be put aside boy 1 remember Bowyer saying to me once when i was cry ing the first Day of my return after the holidays Bey the school is your father boy the school is your Mother i boy the school a your brother the school is your sister Tho school is your first Cousin and your second Cousin and All the rest of your relations lets have no More crying had one just flogging when i was about thirteen i went to a Shoemaker and begged him to take me As his apprentice he be info an honest Man immediately took me to Bowyer the master of christs who got into a great rage knocked me Down and even rudely pushed Crispin out of the room Bowyer asked me Why i had made myself such a fool to which i answered that i had a great desire to be a Shoemaker and that i hated the thought of being a Clergyman Why so said he because to Tell you the truth sir said i 1 am an infidel for this without any More ado Bowyer flogged Ine wisely As i soundly a i know any whining or sermonizing would have gratified Ray vanity Iid Eon fir Medine in my Absurdity As it was iwas laughed at Aud got heartily ashamed of my saturday february 5 the Pope declines to argue the Case of infallibility any More it is reported that the Viceroy of Egypt has made an Alliance with Greece tie Spanish government will soon propose new candidate for the vacant throne a National convention of superintendents of schools is to be held in Washington March 1st judge Winans has introduced a Bill into the House to Divide Ohio into three judicial districts at Bangor me yesterday morn ing was the coldest this Winter the thermometer degrees be Low Zero owing to the great overflow the trains on the Little Rock Cark Railroad cannot run from Madison to Memphis All the work has stopped in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and All ves Sels arriving in february will be put out of commission an official statement shows the ecumenical Council consists of 760 members the number having been somewhat thinned by death and defect Lou letters received in Washington from Alaska show there is great suffering and starvation among the in habitats the military have been of banged to Issue rations the cause of the delay in tiie transmission of Cable dispatches the company say is owing to the fault of the land lines in great Britain the government took the lines on february 1st and immediately there began to be delays the Buffalo commercial Adver Tiser charges the Hon d s Ben Nett member of Congress from that District with a villainous transaction and colossal Pireu of Swind Ling in connection with his Grain elevator and save it can substantiate it the election committee has got up a plan to decide contested elections each Case is to be decided by a special committee drawn by lot each contestant to have the right to object to any one drawn Ashen nine Are drawn and not objected to they will constitute the Jones and Carpenter coloured men sentenced to death for rape were executed yesterday in the jail Yard at Newcastle Delaware in the presence of goo persons Jonos made a Short speech repeat ing Carpenter seas innocent As lie Jones hn3 urged him to the deed Jones died instantly but Carpenter struggled live or six minutes a dispatch from Louisville says George tres ureter his wife and two children while floating Down the River on a raft were upset Dur ing a Gale wednesday night and All drowned except an almost grown boy who succeeded in reach ing the Shore by clinging to a piece of lumber tres Oreter was going to Mississippi to embark in Busi Ness Secretary Cox having examined the Indian treaties has determined to recommend the withdrawal from the Senate of All that propose sell ing the land to railroads a num Ber of senators Are working vigorously to get the president to disregard the recommendation among other treaties is that with the Kaw indians which proposes to sell some of the Best la Jed in Cansas for merely nominal rates the supreme court of Massachi on the Gostion of the right to summarily destroy gambling implements seized by Legal process has decided that the owners of such articles cannot constitutionally be deprived of them without notice actual or constructive and an Opportunity to be heard and the court cannot lawfully cause them to be destroyed without giving reasonable notice o the owners also that Money seized upon such warrant and returned into the court is not by any statute made subject to forfeiture monday february 7 minister Ewing is to be recalled the Market for american Bonds in London has improved the Hon James Wilson of Iowa is urged for the vacant place on the supreme Bench representative Loag of Toledo die Din Washington saturday night at 9 Oclock of pneumonia the census of Charleston South Caroline just taken shows a pop no Avion of White Ami 21570 coloured it is said the emperor of France is a Large landed proprietor in Spain having been making invest ments for ten years the London lancet says Queen Victoria has been for some months Al licked with neuralgia and seriously enough to cause alarm the French ministry have Noti fied Bloch fort to surrender himself to tie authorities in order that his sentence May be executed Mouth easier will be withdrawn As a candidate for the Spanish throne Prince George son of the Duke of Saxony is now talked of the whisky of a distiller in Dayi to having been seized under the i 48 hours Mash regulation the Case will be taken before the courts to decide As to the legality of the Rule a system of smuggling laces books fetus through the mails has been discovered in Chicago among the criminals is Brigham Young who has been getting his hymn books in that Way the Kansas legislature have re Quested the removal of All the indians fjord that state they have also appointed a committee to investigate the affairs connected with the Cherokee Neutral lauds it is said Tho president will soon Send to the Senate nominations to fill the two vacant places on supreme Bench and that one of them will be judge Strong of Pennsyl Vania the name of the other is unknown the Tennessee House of representatives on saturday passed a vote of censure on Hon w j Smith a congressman from that state for furnishing his Frank to members of the legislature to circulate documents with the postmaster general reports that during the month of january there were sent from the washing ton Post office 237127 franked let ters at a Cost to the government of 314250 and 150 tons of printed matter at a Cost of the president has withdrawn from the consideration of the sen ate All the treaties in which the land was to have been sold to rail roads by them Somei of the Best of lands were to be sold to Railroad companies with no provision for payment tuesday february s a heavy Snow storm prevailed in Columbus fast night governor Peter Washbu Ruc of Vermont died yesterday morning an order has been issued reas signing the officers of the Engineer corps the president has nominated Joseph Bradley of new Jersey and we Strong of Pennsylvania As associated justices of the a incl states in Havana yesterday As four americans were walking along the streets wearing Blue cravats a Man shot at them killing one Aud severely wounding two More the French minister to Bavaria has been instructed to say hat As personal government is Over in France hereafter that country will be Only a Spectator of German affairs some californians Are in Washington claiming Goat Island in san Francisco Harbor this is the land wanted by the Pacific Railroad from Congress for a depot and other buildings it was Tiit Secretary of the treas Ury who ordered the suspension of the order requiring whisky Dis tillers to use the Kish Coupon Book this he did As soon As the House passed Tho Resolution Henri Rochefort has published another of his Cayenne Pepper Arti cles in which he says if the government wants him they must take him and he is kind enough to Tell them when they come they had better bring weapons with them the ind european Telegraph line is completed Aud messages will to taken from All Points in the United states on and after feb 15th the line runs through Berlin Odessa Persia and then by Cable through the persian Gulf and Indian Ocean to Bou Ibay Madras the u s supreme court have decided the Legal tender act unconstitutional in so far As it relates to contracts made since the passage of that act the question of con tracts Ido since its passage was not touched upon this was the Opin Ion of justices Chase Kelson Clif Ford and Field while Justice Mil Ler Swayne and Davis dissented the notorious Fred Biebusch and Alex Murdo were arrested in St Louis last night for uttering and dealing in counterfeit Money Bie Busch his been arrested some thirty times during the past sixteen years for the same offence and Oulu convicted once it is believed Posi Tive evidence of their guilt is in Possession of the officers letters were found in Biebusch House implicating various other parties a dispatch from Oil City Penn says owing to the reduction of wages from two dollars to one and three quarters a Large portion of the labourers on the Jamestown Aud Franklin Railroad grades struck last week they Are being paid off today the strikers threaten to make every Man quit work some Hundred in number Aud Ati Oclock this afternoon it looks As if they meant business the foremen of those who remained at work have advised the men to quit work for their own safety a dispatch has been received at the military Headquarters in St Louis from col Kelson command ing Camp Supply Indian territory announcing the Retura of maj kidds scouting expedition to the Kiowa Satanta their chief has been and is still regarded Astl Reat ening hostilities maj Kidd was sent Down on a tour of observation he was received with much defer ence and Many fair protestations but col Nelson is confident the expedition was a timely one and Las had the effect of arresting the mischievous plans of the Kiowa for the present at least wednesday february 9 Prince Arthur left Peabody yesterday morning direct for Mon Treal the remains of George Peabody were interred yesterday at pea body mass the new Jersey legislature recommends the recognition of cuban Independence the Pittsburgh common coun cil has passed an ordinance pro Viding for a paid fire department about three inches Snow fell in Philadelphia before Daylight yesterday morning after which time it rained the streets Are full of slush a Snow storm commenced in Washington monday night and continued till Daylight the ground is covered to the depth of two inches Shelby and Rush counties Indi Ana support judge Wilson for con Gress from the fourth Indiana District and censure or Julian for his circular letter the storm which visited Cincin Nai monday night was quite be ice in the East travel Vas Nia Lei rally interfered with in now ii Glaud and Eastern new York much feel us exists in washing ton Over the decision of judge Chase especially in View of the fact that or Chase himself asked for and secured the Greenback sys tem the Virginia legislature con ened yesterday the governor in his message favors free Educa Tion reduction of taxation Immi Gration and thorough loyalty to the National government the labor Reform party of new Hampshire have opened the Campaign in the state they claim to be Able to throw the election of governor into the legislature and elect enough mein bars thereof to defeat an election Tor lamed states senator nest june the English parliament opened yesterday the Queen was not present in her speech she alludes particularly to the matter of National finances land Reform Meas ures in Ireland Aud outrages in that country the religious tests in the two great universities and parliamentary elections no special re Ference was made to the United states the attention of both the houses was taken up with a Dis Cussion of the Irish question Rochefort was arrested on Mon Day night just As he was on the Point of entering a political meet ing though he made no resist Ance the greatest confusion immediately prevailed barricades were thrown up the police were assaulted several were wounded and one was killed armoires were pillaged of their guns Aud Over three Hun dred persons were taken into custody the Matte was brought up in

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